Yes, God Is Faithful to His Words of Promise … but only to those to whom His promises were spoken or written of.

In describing the qualifications of a pastor (Titus 1:6-8), the Apostle Paul saved the most important one for last, saying that a pastor should always be

⁹ Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, [so] that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. Titus 1:9 (KJV)

Pastors should always hold fast the faithful word, the Word of God! The apostle calls it “the faithful word” because God is faithful to every promise in His Book.

But here's the thing about that: He didn't make all those promises to you or me!

You can pray “give us this day our daily bread” all you want (Mt. 6:11), but God will not be faithful to His promise to rain manna down on you as He did for Israel in the wilderness, and as He will do for them again in the Tribulation (Micah 7:14,15 cf. Rev. 12:14). Those words were spoken concerning God’s chosen Nation, the Nation of Israel.

God also promised them that “all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive” (Mt. 21:22), but He will not faithfully deliver on that promise to anyone during today’s age of “the dispensation of the grace of God” either.

And there are still other promises in the Bible that God is not honoring today. If the people of Israel were obedient to God's Word, He promised to save them out of all their tribulations (Deut. 4:30), and He faithfully delivered on that promise (I Sam. 10:19). But God has not made that promise to you! Today, in this dispensation of grace of God, He allows us to go through tribulation, and then He is faithful to the promise He gives us through the Apostle Paul that “tribulation worketh patience” (Rom. 5:3) and that “All things are working together for good to them who love God and called according to His purpose …. That ye might be conformed to the image of His Son.” (Rom, 8:28-29). Paul is the apostle of the present dispensation of God’s grace, so you know God will be faithful to the promises He makes to us … through Paul.

And Paul gives us other promises to which God will be faithful. When he says, “if ye through the Spirit do mortify [put to death] the deeds of the body, ye shall live [Gk. zao, enjoy the riches of ‘His life’]” (Rom. 8:13), he means that in executing the sinful works of your flesh you can live, really live, spiritually speaking! If you want to live life on the highest plane imaginable, mortify the sinful deeds of your body and see if God isn't faithful to that promise.

Finally, God will be faithful to His promise to us through Paul that “when Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory” (Col. 3:4). That's a promise that will come to fruition at the Rapture, the “salvation” (Rom. 13:11) that God promises us through Paul to give us salvation to heaven before the “wrath” of the Tribulation is poured out.

¹⁰ And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (KJV)
⁹ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation [complete salvation] by our Lord Jesus Christ, 1 Thessalonians 5:9 (KJV)

When that day comes, God will also be faithful to the promise He gave us through Paul to “reward” us for our labor for Him (I Cor. 3:14). In that day, you will see that He will be just as faithful to His promise to us through Paul that “the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us” (Rom. 8:18).

It is this faithful word--the faithful word given to us through Paul--that pastors must hold fast if they want to obey Paul's command to “exhort and to convince the gainsayers” (Tit. 1:9), gainsayers like the ones who insist that God is still honoring the promises He made to the people of Israel.

- Portions drawn from Pastor Ricky Kurth - God Is Faithful To His Words of Promise